Loading ...Mali shut its borders and recalled several ambassadors after West Africa’s economic bloc imposed sanctions on the gold-producing country for refusing to hold elections next month.
The government will “take all necessary measures” to respond to the sanctions, government spokesman Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga said in a statement read on national television on Monday. It urged the nation’s security forces to “remain mobilized” because of the possible deployment of Economic Community of West African States troops.
Mali shuts borders, recalls ambassadors after regional sanctions